Dear Diary,

New cycle! This time, we’re all goliaths! It’s funny going from a tiny, 4-foot tall goblin to a 7-foot tall… basically human with glow-in-the-dark circuit board tattoos all over us. Without hair.

Honestly, not having hair is probably what feels weirdest. That, and how fast we walk. I never noticed it before, but height change does affect how fast we walk. We’re moving through floors slightly faster than average, without even trying.

Avi and I are our own party again this cycle. Aya is with the Sams, and everyone else is together. Which, given that Staab and Lily still aren’t talking, must be super awkward.

This cycle, we’ve kidnapped the wolves off Floor 7 instead of the velociraptors. Not all the wolves, since that would be rude. Just three of them.

Everyone in the floors who sees them is like “oh, you have different pets” and “are you planning on kidnapping the whole dungeon eventually?” I won’t say we are planning on kidnapping the whole dungeon, but… we could. We still have like fifty cycles to go, and if it takes four cycles to fully train a group of pets, we could have like twelve different pets!

So if we spend four cycles training these three wolves, then the next four cycles the other three, what animals should we kidnap next? I’ll never do a slime, they’re evil, but maybe mimics would be fun? Oh! Or giant spiders! There are lots of those! Or maybe by then Kimi and Y will have figured out their water bubble thing, and we’ll be able to kidnap sharks!

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I’ll have to talk it over with Avi.

Oh yeah, the wolves are named Amy, Red, Bitey, King, Tails, and Bluetooth. We asked the Floor 8 goblins what their names should be, and those were the names we got. The wolves we have with us this cycle are Amy, Tails and Red.

Red isn’t really red. He’s more of that rusty grey-brown that people call red when talking about wolf fur color. But it’s red enough for him to be called Red.

Tomorrow we’ll find out how the velociraptors react to us having different pets. I don’t think they’ll be too jealous, since we’re still going to feed them, but Avi isn’t sure. He thinks they might attack the wolves just because they’re new creatures on their floor. Which I can see. I mean, that is their job. Still, I think if they see the wolves are our friends they won’t attack.

The spinosaurus might attack, though. We aren’t really super good friends with him yet.

Oh, Lily is orange this cycle. It’s kinda weird how when we were stuck with our colors, everyone wanted to change. But now that we can change whenever we want… we haven’t. We all swapped colors once, but after that we went back to our original colors. I just haven’t felt like it, and I guess the others don’t feel like it either.

Well, the Sams switched colors a couple times, but they settled pretty quick on what colors they wanted to be. Samantha is brown, Samuel is orange, and Samurai is pink. Samurai rarely uses magic, though. I think she just wanted pink hair.

Anyways, I should sleep.

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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